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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Finnley’s Great Escape

Finnley’s
Great Escape(Condamine
Alliance)

PB
RRP $15.00

ISBN
9780992432409

Also
available as an ebook at Amazon

Finnley
lives in a beautiful home where the water is clean, the trees are shady and
there is plenty of food for everyone. But one day, Finnley and his friends are
swept away to a smelly, muddy, toxic shallow far from their home. Soon they
realise they are not alone and must find a way to escape what lurks in the
murky water.

Who will save them? And will they ever return to their beautiful
home again?

Finnley’s
Great Escape is a story about an Australian smelt called Finnley and his native
fish friends. One day they are swept away from their beautiful, clean home to a
toxic shallow that is infested with one of the world’s worst pest fish,
tilapia.

The
book has been a collaboration between natural resource management
group Condamine Alliance, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and 13 young
people who helped write and illustrate the book. The book’s beautiful
hand painted illustrations and clever storyline carry an important message
about the threat of tilapia to the Murray-Darling Basin.

It was produced as part of the Northern Basin Tilapia
Exclusion Strategy which is funded by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and has
been officially endorsed by Jackie French, the Australian National Children’s Laureate for
2014-15 and author of popular children’s book The Diary of a Wombat.